01585nam a2200181Ia 4500 0000023508 20251012174648.0 9781586487980 339.46091724 BAN 2011 Poor economics a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. 1st ed. New York PublicAffairs c2011. xi, 303 p. 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful mispercept ions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout, the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure, denied many of the cushions and advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent" Provided by publisher. Economic assistance Developing countries. Poverty Prevention. 8301 8301 0 0 0 0 KEM KEM 2013-10-09 0 0000009728 2025-10-12 08:36:18 2025-10-12 OS